Blog #7-Nineteen Minutes

For this week I decided to keep reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult. The part I read this week was about what was going on seventeen years before the shooting. At the end of the chapter I read last week the police man was in the school after the shooting had just ended, and was rescuing a girl who had been shot. The girl was Josie, who seems like she will be a main character later in the story. Her mom is Alex Cormier, who in the chapter I most recently read, Alex is pregnant with Josie and is trying to decide if she is going to keep the baby or not since she has a busy life with work, and got pregnant in an affair, so has no husband to help supports her. She meets a doctor named Lacy and they seem to be creating a sort of bond with each other. Lacy was interested in Alex from the first time they met and only now, after many months, is Alex beginning to open up to her. I feel bad for Alex because it seems like she was tricked into becoming pregnant, since the man she had the affair with was her teacher who was very manipulative and made her think he truly loved her and was ending his marriage. Even thought I know that Alex keeps the baby, since it is revealed in the beginning of the book, I am wondering how she comes to this decision. I am also wondering if her and Lacy will continue to allow their friendship to grow after the baby is born. This book might be better than I thought! On the other hand, there is still a lot of confusing character switches, and the context isn’t very good at holding my attention. I guess ill just read some more and see!